ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50341
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| Date: | Thursday 22 June 1944 |
| Time: | 02:35 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 207 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | LM578 |
| MSN: | EM-L |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | North Sea NW of Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Spilsby |
Took off from RAF Spilsby at 23:21 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Wesseling in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Martin Drewes of the Stab III./NJG 1, who had left Leeuwarden at the controls of a Bf 110 G-4 at 00:46 hrs; crashed in the sea off the Dutch coast.
Four bodies were evenually found and of these, three lie in churchyard in Hollad but Fg Off Bowes RAAF is buried in Cambridge City Cemetery. The others are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. Flt Sgt Jackson was flying as a second air bomber:
Fg Off T T Smart DFC (KIA) - Runnymede Memorial
Sgt R C McArthur (KIA) - Castricum Protestant Churchyard - washed up Castricum (Noord-Holland) 13 July
Fg Off D J Faires (KIA) - Runnymede Memorial
Fg off L E Bowes RAAF (KIA) - Cambridge City Cemetery, UK
Flt sgt L F Jackson (KIA) - Runnymede Memorial
Flt H A Shaw (KIA) - Bergen General Cemetery - washed up Bergen (pole 32,8, Noord-Holland) 16 July
Sgt K W Sansom (KIA) - Westduin Gen. Cemetery, The Hague - washed up near Wassenaar (Zuid-Holland) 11 July
Sgt C D Boyce RCAF (KIA) - Runnymede Memorial
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3842&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 294.
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://wingstovictory.nl/database/database_detail.php%3Fwtv_id%3D406&prev=search
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 31 August 1943 | W4120 | 207 Sqn RAF | 6 | near Hoef aan de Pan, Maarheeze, Noord-Brabant | |
w/o |
| 18 October 1943 | W4276 | 207 Sqn RAF | 6 | south of Wettbergen, Hannover, Niedersachsen |  |
w/o |
| 2 January 1944 | DV370 | 207 Sqn RAF | 7 | near Brunnental at Helmstedt, Niedersachsen | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 27-Dec-2011 03:57 | Uli Elch | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 19-Jun-2016 15:40 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 01-Nov-2018 09:09 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 15-Oct-2020 20:02 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 15-Oct-2020 20:02 | TigerTimon | Updated [Embed code] |
| 15-Jun-2022 16:14 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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